Wilkie Collins

A Frenchwoman named Mademoiselle Gautier begins life as an actress and ends it as a Carmelite nun. The story follows her conversion and her life in the convent.

A man and a widow meet at a public meeting and form a connection. The widow offers to help the man financially, but he must marry her. They marry, but the man is later tempted by a young actress...

A young man recounts his experience at a gambling house in Paris, where he narrowly escapes being smothered to death in a bed rigged with a deadly contraption.

A man and his daughter come accross an apparently mad, ill woman in a London park.